2020-21 CFB Coaching Carousel

Major Applewhite is headed to South Alabama as OC, turning down the same job at Arkansas State.

Previously, he had been head coach at Houston and OC at Alabama. OC in the Sun Belt is a far cry from those gigs.

 

This is your national coach of the year.
Eventually, he's going to get a Pac 12 or similar gig. It's good for him that he didn't get/take the Arizona job. Gotta be on the USC radar.

 

Could be worse: He could have been coaching at a 3A high school in East Texas.

 

Should've just hired Bobby. At 93 he's still a better coach.

 

Brennan is a good example of a hire that nobody claimed was a "home run hire" that really worked out. SJSU has had coaches that were really good and moved on, and others who weren't and didn't. Hiring the receivers coach from a Pac-12 team that wasn't very good - but a coach who had previously worked in San Jose - didn't portend great things. I still don't think USC would hire him since he's not a "big" enough name. Also not in "the family." Thought Arizona would have been a good landing spot. At least Brennan will get to show Tucson what it is missing out on in the bowl game.

 

Arizona's not a good landing spot for anybody. That's a terrible job.

 

Kind of true - Larry Smith was the last coach to "move up" when he took the USC job from there - and Jim Young took the Purdue job when Arizona was still a WAC school.

 

This Bill Clark-Auburn issue might not be over.

 

The four coaches after Larry Smith were Dick Tomey, John Mackovic, Mike Stoops and Rich Rod. Between them they've had exactly one head coaching job after leaving Arizona -- Tomey at San Jose State. Good luck, Kevin Sumlin.

It's nearly impossible to recruit to Arizona. There is actually a lot of high school football talent in-state but it goes to Oregon, USC and ASU. The facilities are garbage. Tucson is kind of a dump. There's no tradition to speak of. They've never even appeared in the Rose Bowl.

No coach on their way up should ever take a call from Arizona's AD.

 

And of those four, the only one who had any consistent success there was Tomey ... and he was run out of town by fans wanting more offense. I think that's one of the things Arizona in Brennan, a link to the days of Desert Swarm.

 

No one wants to be the new boyfriend/girlfriend when all the signficant other talks about is the "ex."

 

I think I mentioned way back on this thread that I thought Cal might have been the worst job in the Pac 12. The more and more I think of UofA, I'm probably wrong. Arizona is not an easy job right now.